They can't track your online activity if you have no online activity to track (taps forehead)
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Back when computers used to have actual power switches. Nowadays they have power buttons.
Jeez, between that and the alt text...
...y'all are making me feel old because you don't even know what you're looking at.
That's a computer from at least the second half of the '90s, if not early 2000s, because it has a CD-ROM drive. That also means it's an ATX with a software power button, not AT with a power switch.
(I guess it's theoretically possible somebody could have upgraded an early-'90s AT computer to add a CD-ROM, but so unlikely I'm willing to discount the possibility.)
I remember back in... well, it was something like 1995 to 1998, I knew a guy who made extra money by purchasing a CD burner and burning music CDs for other people.
I feel like 97 or 98 was when AOL stopped sending floppy disks in the mail and started sending CDs, lots of them, I had so many AOL floppies that I reused